Communication between the Eastern Marxist and Western Christianwhether
in courtesies at the summit or in the lower depths of an interrogation
cellis always baffled by language difficulties. The two biggest
Communist nations expropriated the language of Tolstoy and Confucius,
and interpreters are available. But who will interpret the language of
Marxism, which presents problems more complex than the conjugation of a
Russian verb or the tonal inflections of Mandarin? That
many-splendored monolith, world Communism, is, in fact, a monoglot,
whatever...